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To: 1000 silverlings
According to the scripture, when we enter Heaven we are glorified.

There is an ambiguity in this phrase. It can mean either "when we enter Heaven we are (already) glorified" or "when we enter Heaven (no matter how sinful we are when we enter), we are at that moment and not before then, automatically glorified".

Catholicism teaches the former but rejects the latter.

-A8

1,902 posted on 10/30/2006 8:48:39 AM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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To: adiaireton8; Alamo-Girl; All

There is an ambiguity in this phrase. It can mean either "when we enter Heaven we are (already) glorified" or "when we enter Heaven (no matter how sinful we are when we enter), we are at that moment and not before then, automatically glorified".

= = = =

I don't think that there is Scriptural justification for emphatically believing either one conclusively.

We can conjecture all we want.

We can speculate all we want.

We can extrapolate all we want.

We can infer all we want.

We can pontificate all we want.

We can stand all puffed up on however many centuries of TRADITIONS OF MAN that we want . . .

but the jury will be decidely out unless and until we get there or unless and until God clarifies it further with emphatic signs following such as a loud booming voice from Heaven heard round the world or some such.


1,982 posted on 10/30/2006 7:51:59 PM PST by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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